No students yet for 42 engineering colleges

• In a striking and grim indication of the number of BE\B.Tech., seats in self-financing engineering colleges in the state overshooting the demand, 42 institutions have failed to attract a single student in the ongoing Tamilnadu Engineering Admissions academic stream counseling.

• Equally glaring is the fact that no student from the academic stream has opted to join the information technology course in 197 colleges and the computer science engineering course in 166 institutions as on Monday morning. If one includes candidate seeking admission under the vocational stream or under various quota, the number of colleges where IT remains untouched is still 162.

Times of India 28/07/09